US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 7 for "Liquid ejection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,502, issued on July 7, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejection device" was invented by Naomi Kimura (Okaya, Japan) and Shoma Kudo (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection device regulates discharge of liquid from a liquid ejection head after a remaining amount detection section detects that remaining amount of liquid contained in a liquid container falls below a first threshold in a case where instruction related to disposal is not input by an input section, and allows discharge of the liquid from the liquid discharge head after the remaining amount detection section detects that the remain...